THE BRYANT BICENTENNIAL CONCERT

CPS-8623
Audio Format: Stereo, DDD
Playing Time: 60:19
Release Date: 1995

Track Listing

Becky Dale:  Summer Wind

Matthew Marullo:  Mutation

Abram M. Plum:  Mutation

Anne Watson Born:  November

Harriette Slack Richardson:  Yet One Smile More

Judi Silvano:  The Nature of Life

Joseph Pehrson:  Thanatopsis

Akmal Parwez:  Song of the Prairies       

Frederick Frahm:  The Future Life
(This performance is the first professional recording of music by Frederick Frahm.  This music was subsequently orchestrated and included in the chamber opera The Death of Isaiah Robb.  The published edition is available in a piano/vocal score from Fabrique Musicale.)

George Selbst:  The Death of the Flowers

Leo Kraft:  October 1864 

Leonard Lehrman:  The Journey of Life 

Herbert Feldman:  A Song for New Year's Eve

Review from the Sonneck Society Bulletin

"William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878) was one of the first American poets to gain international fame. He lived on Long Island from 1843 until his death and donated the property for what became The Bryant Library, Long Island's oldest public library in continuous operation. To celebrate his bicentennial, a competition solicited musical settings of his poetry. Besides marking the Bryant bicentennial, the live concert which premiered some of the competition material was the 148th concert by the Long Island Composer's Alliance, a group founded in 1972 and devoted to the presentation of music by serious composers living and working on Long Island... While the works on the program are of varying quality and interest, the best of the compositions are effective, and some of them are available in published versions. Given the often difficult climate for contemporary music, the Long Island Composer's Alliance has accomplished something remarkable in supporting new music for over 20 years, producing over 150 concerts by 1994."